Moscow Military District

The Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Union and Russia that existed from 6 August 1864 to 2010. The district was formed after the Imperial Russian Army was reformed under Dmitry Milyutin, and it covered twelve provinces around the capital of Moscow. During World War II, the army consisted of three fronts, 23 armies, 128 divisions, and 197 brigades, a total of 4,500,000 Red Army troops. The district would exist even after the fall of the USSR in 1991, and it would only be disbanded in 2010 when it was merged with the Leningrad Military District to form the Western Military District.